A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-208

  Yu, Jianming ^a   Pressoir, Gael ^a   Briggs, William H ^b   Bi, Irie Vroh ^a   Yamasaki, Masanori ^c   Doebley, John F ^b   McMullen, Michael D ^c,d   Gaut, Brandon S ^d   Nielsen, Dahlia M ^e   Holland, James B ^d,e   Kresovich, Stephen ^a   Buckler, Edward S ^a,d  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; MAIZE; MARKER GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RESEARCH DESIGN; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 31744440502     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1702     Document Type: Article

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